We found out our placements for January today. I’m with the Camhs (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service) team, in our city which is a 10 minute drive from my house. Brucey Bonus . I haven’t had any involvement atall with Camhs so far so it will be a new experience. The closest I have been is working with a couple of people who had recently made the transition into adult ...

User and carer views of CAMHS intensive home treatment service in Bradford, Practice Development in Health Care, 2009   Jhansi Rani et al…    Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Laura Mitchell Health Centre, Halifax, UK Abstract:   We report the views of young people and their families who used an innovative, intensive home-based child and adolescent mental health ...

... consent form instead. I don’t expect to be doing much that’s particularly coercive when I go back to the community CAMHS team, apart from occasionally going round to the school or home of an anorexic kid to supervise her lunch. Kids are sometimes hauled to CAMHS unwillingly by their parents, in some cases for Naughty Child Syndrome which they expect us to be ...

... top of the waiting list anyway, so losing 6 weeks means nothing. I'm feeling pretty crushed about the whole thing. And annoyed as hell, because if everyone had just behaved sensibly and let the referral go through from CAMHS in May, then I'd be 5 months into the 6 by now and there'd be light at the end of the tunnel. Basically she got a bit grumpy with me and said I'm lucky that ...